The shekel was weaker against the dollar in inter-bank trading this morning as the US currency was strengthened by the European debt crisis. The shekel dollar exchange rate rose by 0.84% to NIS 3.463/$ but the shekel euro exchange rate was up 0.33% to NIS 4.821/€.
Trading continued yesterday's trend when the shekel-dollar representative exchange rate rose 1.06% to NIS 3.434/$, but the shekel-euro representative exchange rate fell 0.62% to NIS 4.837/€.
The EU has summoned an emergency meeting following Moody's warning of potential insolvency in Italy.
In global markets, the dollar was stronger and was trading at $1.396/€. "Bloomberg" spoke to five leading foreign exchange companies who all felt that having lost 13% over the past year, the dollar is now expected to strengthen.
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